Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."
-Henry Brooks Adams in Life quotes.

"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."
-Henry Brooks Adams in Education quotes.

"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."
-Henry Brooks Adams in Friendship quotes.

"In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man."
-Henry Brooks Adams

"You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength."
-Henry Brooks Adams